G. David Felt

Weird, how the hell did I get triplet entries. At least the feeling is in tripliket.

The car does grow on you, but sadly no connection to past supra's. This thing has lost it's DNA connection.

The car does grow on you, but sadly no connection to past supra's. This thing has lost it's DNA connection.

The car does grow on you, but sadly no connection to past supra's. This thing has lost it's DNA connection.

Good year to trade in that japan crap car and get a real american ride.

I travel all the time to Germany and see these Death Crates on wheels. As a 6'6" american, I have tried and am not able to fit in one. To me you have to be stupid and crazy to buy and drive one. I just pick you out of my grill of my suburban.

Boring and Ugly as all Minivans are but then these will still sell in large quantities to the large familys that need people movers. I totally agree, at least they are sticking it out in a segment they created and have grown. I do now more than ever believe that GM has done the right thing in killing off the minivans and moving to the crossovers. I think they will have greater success here.

Dude I totally agree with you, need lots of money for all the great auto's coming out. FYI, Japs is not the best term to use. A bit racist and has deragatory marks to WWII. Yea I know political correctness sucks, but Japanease did get us lazy americans to finally realize we needed to do things with quality since we were ignoring this important issue. GM ROCKS!!!

Now back to our Regularly scheduled Discussion. GM IS Right in how they are handling this and it will be nothing but positive for them. Early purchases of these vehicles will find that a proactive approach by GM to make sure the end user is totally satisfied and are going ahead with making sure things are resolved properly will have nothing but praise for how GM has handled them and these are the people who will recommend and say "See, GM took care of me and my vehicle still is trouble free 80,000 miles later. Rock on GM!

Thanks for the great info, I wonder if I will feel as cavernous as I am 270lbs 6'6" tall. Internal size has always been an issue for me. I hope it truly is roomy. Then my wife gets one of these baby's

Hat to say it, but while over all you are right on the stigma's. Question to ask is do we need the cheap Minivan Buyers? Most minivan buyers maker less than 45,000 a year and while DCX has the bulk of the segment, that segment excluding the over priced Honda van that goes to higher income families. DCX sells the bulk of their minivans in the low end category. I agreee with Lut'z. In brining GM back to a profitable growing company. do not waste R&D dollars on this segment. Focus on the growing segments. Crossovers and Sedans along with the new GMT900 platform for the markets. After all, China is a growing hotbed, might as well get the products that are selling like hotcakes in there also. I think Lutz is spot on this time about minivans. Also like someone else mentioned. How many people on this site really drive a minivan. I myself will never own a van or minivan. Do not like the layouts or designs, etc. I for one will stick to my Suburban and CTS.

Shareholder accountability is very important to every company and the board does need to take this into account. But not at the threat of a single person. The board should have no direct employees of a company in my opinion so that it can truly stay objective. This has been a major problem for companies. Just look at FORD, the Ford family has messed that company up more than helped it I believe. I know that some of the Board members are also GM full time employees. I am willing to accept this as long as the majority are outside individuals. This keeps a company on track for making better choices IMO.

I love the Look. Much better Grill, Love the clean lines. I never used my roof rack and took it off, I also took off the side body molding as it was ugly on my GMC Yukon XL. Clean is what I like. Clean Monochromatic. paint job. The only areas that should have chrome is the wheels and the front grill. My major bitch with the new Escalade is the over BLING job they did. Way to much chrome. The chrome should be an option. Only so many people like that much chrome and it is usually the rappers and jocks of a certian group that likes it. Mercedes and BMW have sold millions of dollars on their auto's and never needed freakin Bling. I actually loved the older look of the escalade over the newer version but Hope GM will wake up and make Chrome an option and just leave the large Caddy logo on back and drop the Chrome brick as it looks gawdy. This Yukon is clean and looks great. The only down side is I use mine to haul Trailors. My boat during spring and summer and my snowmobiles during the winter. It has to have hauling. Course I would love a Yukon XL with the Duramax and 6sp Allison. That would be da Bomb baby and clean like this one.

That is Drop Dead Beautiful!

Considering what they get out of the I5 now and with a Turbo can be a nice package. They need to move the I6 to the Current H3 and use the I5 in the H4. This would be hot as I am not a jeep fan, but hummer me baby with this.

I want to see a Duramax V8 with 6 speed allison tranny Suburban, Yukon and Escalade. I also want to see a baby Duramx, V6 with a proper 6 speed tranny in the trucks and mid size suv's. The baby Duramax V6 already exist being sold by Isuzu and I am sure they could have a 4 banger for the market also. Diesel is the way to go.

This Car is amazing. This would allow me to stay in a car. At 6'6" tall the current STS is too small and no one can sit behind me as the drivers seat must be all the way back. This auto I could actually haul people. When will GM realize that the STS is NOT a full size car. They need a car like this. I fully expect this awesome interior to make it to the STS and DTS within the next year. It is the best I have ever seen out of GM.

Thanks for the link. The web site in my opinion is not very good. Having to wait everytime you click on a link for a complete refresh. none of the concepts are available in the downloads section so not a great variety of images. There is much they can improve on. Have a more detailed engine section. Better detailed with immediate pictures on all vehicles including concepts. Looks like they use flash for everything. The loading is slow. My machine is fast and my connection, but accessing that site is slow. Need faster response. Not everything has to be flash. Thanks for the info.

Dealers Scream for SUV (Chrysler) and Compact (Jeep). Man looks like knee jerk action by the Executive staff rather than proper research and marketing of a good product. Jeep CompASS = Chrysler ASSpen = Bad German Management = More potential customers for GM. Go GM!!!

I will take this in a Denali Package Yukon XL PLEASE!!!

To me it looks like a Cigarette Pack high or about 3-4 inches off the ground. Not Bad, even if this is not the final actual look. I love this as a great update to my current CTS! I am So Stoked!!! Gonna trade in the old nice baby for a new bad boy.

That's impossible and I don't believe it. You see; just last week Jerry Flintstone said that Cadillac is in a decline and everything they've done in the last 5 years is worthless. Or at least that's the way it read. Thusly... the people you're talking to are obviously lying. 209528[/snapback] So we just accept everything Jerry Flintstone says as gospil? Please, anyone can look and see that Cadillac and Hummer have hits on their hands and are doing much better than a few years ago. Now wether or not they stay there will show in the next year as new models come out. If GM can stay on top of keeping the product lines fresh enough to drive upgrades and conquest customers then they have the right team in place to drive and grow the business.Personally, I think they will be there and get better. The bigger issue is wether GM can change fast enough to really drive all brands to new highes. Perfect example is the need to have the Duramax in the Full Size SUV's and also have a baby Duramax (V6) in the SRX to compete against ehde R320CDI from Mercedes. People will endorse a bio-Diesel engine that gets great milage and is quite just like a gas engine. It is what I am waiting on.

I also attended the Seattle Auto Show on Friday night. The crowd was solid, not really any large scale groups other than at Mercedes, BMW, Porchese and the usual groups milling around the more exotic auto's. Here is my observation of the following: Acura MDX - New 2007 model, outside body design nice and pleasing, very consistent for Acura's conservative approach. Interior, very disappointing with all the plasticy, hard cheap look. The center console was also a busy small button mess. The vehicle had power so people could try things out. I saw more than a few people confused and asking if they had a simpler dash layout. This was a unit with the NAV system and it was not user friendly. Over all for $45K one would expect a better interior, but they will sell them plenty as peopl are hooked on the name ACURA. Mercedes R320CDI - This is what Caddilac should have had for the SRX. A quality Diesel that give high 20's and low 30's for gas milage. Great all around package. SRX is everything this auto is except in the engine department. Comparison of the Lincoln Pickup that is the replacement for the blackwood is a joke. They had only about 15 feet away the F150 and as I over heard many people say, for the money, you might as well buy a higher lever Ford and get a better package than what they are doing on the new Lincoln pickup. A big surprise interest was in the Hundayi SantaFe. This little SUV seemed to garner considerable attention from the crowd. Very positive and a much improved update over the current model. GM and what we are all waiting for: Chevy had a smash hit with their line up of vehicles. Plenty of traffic and interest. Saddly they had only one of the new Chevy Trucks on display and it was on a turn table. But fortunatly, GMC had 2 of the new trucks on the floor for everyone to crawl all over and check out. Yay Baby, these new trucks are Amazing. Tight fit and finish and great interiors. Nothing but positive comments heard from people. Strangly not a single dually was in attendance this year. Not even Ford or Dodge had one. Dodge was the only one with a diesel there also. Chevy Tahoe and Suburban gathered much praise from people. Saddly, GM really needs to update / change the nose on the Yukon, many people liked the interior, but the exterior nose was not a popular hit even with the woman. They all generally liked the Chevy look much better. Was interesting to hear people ask the chevy sales people if they could get the denali engine transmission option in the chevy. Caddilac was popular and in good shape over all. Interesting observation is that I was busy checking out the new Escalades and while I had been really impressed on my two test drives at the Bellevue Caddilac dealership. The thing that holds me back is the over bling issue. Way to much Chrome. This panned out with seeing people ask if the Chrome was an option they could remove in favor of a monochromatic look with the current wheel choices. Sadily, I feel this is an area that caddilac missed the boat on. Most people would be happy with the larger than life Caddilac emblem on the back, but the Chrome bar on either side of it needs to go! Same with pretty much all the chrome. People asked if they could get the vehicle with only Chrome on the grill and wheels but no where else. For a luxury Vehicle, it needs to be elegant but no Rap / Sport Jock Bling level. Might work for now as they fill the initial demand, but I think GM needs to change this also. My wife was wanting to get a new Escalade but now after seeing the current version, she does not want that Chrome Bling mobile. To quote her: "Wait till they either take off all the aweful chrome or we will look at something else." How did they let this mess get out the door. My wife did love the H2 and H3. Thought they were great. H2 for her and the H3 for our daughter. Now there is a day of expense if that happens. But will have to wait and see what I end up with. Sadily, the Buick area was vacant. Not a single person looking. Except for me listening with my wife to the lady talk about the Lucerne up on the turn table, it was a dead sales floor. Hopefully the weekend traffic brought more people in. We'll that is all for now.

While the quality and interior is there, Saddly I have to agree with everyone, GMC needs to dump this front end. The old Denali was so far better looking than this ugly female nose. Even I bet a woman designer could do better than what ever half ass desiner did this.

Awesome Job, well done, right balance of chrome, rims and dual exhaust with a decent bed cover. Hit it right on with this one.